Prairie opens wood-bat tourney with split
SPOKANE - Daniel Mobeck's RBI single with two out in the fourth inning gave Prairie the lead for good in a 6-5 win against the Weber (Utah) Warriors and Zack Reeder struck out nine in a 2-0 loss against the Spokane Northstars as the Cardinals split their opening games in the Jackson Field pod of the Spokane-Coeur d'Alene Wood Bat Classic on Friday.
Darnell Metcalf went 3 for 4 with two runs scored for Prairie against Weber.
"We hit the ball alright, but we just played a great game in the first game," Prairie coach Dustin Frank said. "Tyler (Shaffer) threw a lot of strikes and didn't walk a bunch of people."
Shaffer had six strikeouts in five innings before Mobeck came in to get his third save for Prairie.
Bo Cook had a two-run single in the first inning for Spokane to give the Northstars the win.
"It was a really tough game," Frank said. "Zack pitched a gem of a game. We had a couple of baserunning errors they capitalized on and didn't give us any free bases."
Mobeck and Derek Tymesen had two hits apiece in the second game for Prairie (14-14), which faces Billings and Kennewick today at Jackson Field.
PRAIRIE 6, WEBER 5
Prairie 001 320 0 - 6 8 2
Weber 001 202 0 - 5 5 2
Tyler Shaffer, Daniel Mobeck (6) and Darnell Metcalf; Champion and Lockwood. W - Shaffer (2-1). L - Champion. S - Mobeck (3).
HITS: Pra - Mobeck 2, Metcalf 3, Tymesen, Carter, South. Web - Roylance 3, Kilpeck, Champion.
SPOKANE NORTHSTARS 2, PRAIRIE 0
Prairie 000 000 0 - 0 5 3
Spokane 200 000 0 - 2 5 1
Zack Reeder and Darnell Metcalf; Wiggins and Costello. W - Wiggins. L - Reeder (1-1).
HITS: Pra - Mobeck 2, Tymesen 2, Carter. Spo - Lookabill, Wolf, Carter, B. Cook, Costello. 2B - Mobeck.
Coeur d'Alene 7
Pullman 1
COEUR d'ALENE - Colin Comack struck out nine and allowed two hits as the Coeur d'Alene Lumbermen opened the Spokane-Coeur d'Alene Wood Bat Classic with a win over the Patriots on Friday at McEuen Field.
"Colin was just in control tonight," Coeur d'Alene coach Lloyd Duman said. "It was a positive start for us in the tournament. It was all I can hope for."
Pete Hoffman and Mitch Bevacqua had RBI doubles in a three-run fourth inning for Coeur d’Alene (25-11), which faces Cloverdale at 6 and Rainier at 8:30 tonight at McEuen Field.
Loggers open
with two wins
COEUR d’ALENE — Sean Sutton had eight strikeouts for the Coeur d’Alene Loggers in a 10-5 win against Silver Valley and Nick Nyquist had a two-run single in the sixth inning as the Loggers defeated the Coeur d’Alene Lakers 15-2 on the first day in the Lake City High pod of the Junior Division of the Spokane-Coeur d’Alene Wood Bat Classic on Friday.
Brett Robbins, Devin Burgess and Kolby DeHaas had two RBI apiece for the Loggers against Silver Valley. The Cd’A Loggers will face Bitterroot at 3:30 p.m. and the Spokane Vipers at 6 p.m. to conclude pool play.
Robbins and Leif Krapas also had two RBIs apiece for the Loggers (17-18) against the Lakers in their pool play game.
Gavan Rosteck had two hits for the Lakers, who face Silver Valley today at 8 a.m. and Bitterroot at 10:30 a.m.
COEUR d’ALENE 10, SILVER VALLEY 5
Silver Valley 000 203 0 — 5 6 3
Cd’A Loggers 340 111 x — 10 11 1
Alex Schonhans and Tony Branz; Sean Sutton and Kolby DeHaas. W — Sutton (2-2). L — Schonhans.
HITS: SV — Beggerly 3, Orsburn, Jerome, Branz. Cd’A — Robbins 2, Burgess 2, DeHaas 2, Fortis, O’Hagen, Kedia, D. Sutton, Krapas. 2B — Fortis. 3B — DeHaas.
Cd’A LOGGERS 15, Cd’A LAKERS 2
Loggers 000 32(10) 0 — 15 7 2
Lakers 000 200 0 — 2 4 4
Jake Gonzalez and Shane Siron; Austin Lake and Ethan Brandt. W — Gonzales (1-2). L — Lake.
HITS: Log — Robbins 2, Osmanski, Krapas, Nyquist, Parson, Kedia. Lak — Cooke, Newby, Rosteck 2. 2B — Krapas.
Lumberjacks split: The Coeur d’Alene Lumberjacks under-16 team beat the West Kootenay Diamondbacks 6-5 and lost 11-9 to Fort McLeod in Junior Division pool play at Coeur d’Alene High’s Ted Page Field.
In other scores at Coeur d’Alene High, it was the Shadle Park Highlanders 4, Eagle Vipers 2; West Kootenay 8, Eagle 3 and Fort McLeod 13, Shadle Park 10.